Teresa Hayter

Teresa Hayter is an author and activist based in the United Kingdom who has advocated for anti-racism and free migration.[1] She is the author of three books: Aid as Imperialism, The Creation of World Poverty, and Open Borders: The Case Against Immigration Controls.[2]

Personal life

Hayter is the daughter of William Hayter, a diplomat representing the United Kingdom at the Soviet Union, and his wife Iris Marie Grey.[3] According to The Daily Mail, Hayter, a debutante at Oxford University, "was one of the few girls of her era to attend university and became an Oxford University legend by attending 64 parties in 54 days. She later shrugged off her privileged background to join the International Marxists and write about world poverty."[1][4][5]

Views

Views on migration controls and refugee rights

Hayter has been a vocal campaigner and activist for greater refugee rights and the loosening of migration controls in general. Her book, Open Borders: The Case Against Immigration Controls made general arguments against migration controls and also pointed specifically to the circumstances of refugees. In the book and elsewhere, she has connected her activism for migration rights with her anti-racist views.[6][7][8] The book is available for free online[9] and has received some reviews.[10] In addition to her books and media interviews and articles, Hayter has also made the case for a world without borders in academic journals.[11]

Hayter is at the helm of a campaign to close down Campsfield House, a detention centre in the United Kingdom.[12]

In March 2007, Hayter refused to share the podium with David Coleman (an advisor and one of the founders of Migration Watch UK in the United Kingdom and a demographer at St. John's College, Oxford), and supported a petition by the Oxford STAR calling on the vice chancellor, John Hood, to "consider the suitability of Coleman's continued tenure as a Professor of the University, in light of his well-known opinions and affiliations relating to immigration and eugenics."[1][13][14]

Aid and poverty

Hayter wrote two books on the subject of the world order and its connection to poverty: Aid as Imperalism (1971) and The Creation of World Poverty. In the former, she criticized the lending policies of the World Bank while extolling the development approach of North Korea; the book was reviewed in The Spectator in 1972.[15] The latter was reviewed by Leading Light.[16][17]

Reception

Hayter has been interviewed by a number of blogs and websites.[6][7] She has penned a column for The Guardian (a UK-based newspaper)[13] and is frequently cited and quoted in The Guardian[12][18] and other British publications[1][4] on issues related to asylum seekers and refugees.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Oxford protestors 'hounding out' professor who spoke up on immigration issues". The Daily Mail. 8 March 2007. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  2. ↑ "Teresa Hayter". Pluto Press, MacMillan. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  3. ↑ "OBITUARIES Sir William Hayter". 30 March 1995. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  4. 1 2 Paton, Maureen (13 December 2007). "Fiona MacCarthy: The rebel deb with a kick in her curtsey". The Telegraph. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  5. ↑ O'Donovan, Gerard (14 December 2007). "Last night on television: Last Party at the Palace (Channel 4) - Timeshift: A Game of Two Eras (BBC4)". The Telegraph. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  6. 1 2 Cleave, Chris (11 March 2008). "Refugees Don't Eat Swans – an interview with Teresa Hayter". Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  7. 1 2 "Teresa Hayter: Interview". spectrezine. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  8. ↑ Hayter, Teresa (1 October 2002). "The new common sense. Immigration controls are unsustainable. Let’s junk them". The New Internationalist. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  9. ↑ "Open Borders: The case against immigration controls". libcom. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  10. ↑ McLoughlin, Conor. "Open Borders: The case against immigration controls - review". libcom. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  11. ↑ "No borders: the case against immigration controls". Feminist Review 73: 6–18. 2003. doi:10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400071.
  12. 1 2 "'Outdated' detention centre to close". The Guardian. 7 February 2002. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  13. 1 2 Hayter, Teresa (16 March 2007). "Watching David Coleman. The co-founder of Migration Watch wishes to persuade us he is the victim of a smear campaign. But what about his views on eugenics?". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  14. ↑ Paton, Graeme (2 March 2007). "Students try to oust MigrationWatch don". The Telegraph. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  15. ↑ Hudson, Christopher (29 January 1972). "Two Cheers for Revolution". The Spectator. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  16. ↑ Leading Light (8 June 2011). "Book Review Part 1 of 2 of Teresa Hayter's The Creation of World Poverty". Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  17. ↑ Leading Light (8 June 2011). "Book Review Part 2 of 2 of Teresa Hayter's The Creation of World Poverty". Retrieved 29 May 2014.
  18. ↑ Gupta, Rahila (15 June 2009). "Bringing migrants into the light. As Refugee Week begins, I welcome support for regularising migrants without papers, but an amnesty must not create hurdles". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
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